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Meetings Coverage


ENV/DEV/1041
With countries around the world reeling from economic turmoil, food insecurity, and the threat of climate change, the Netherlands’ Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality today told delegations “this is the time to act” to make sustainable agriculture and rural development central to achieving lasting development and poverty reduction, as the Commission on Sustainable Development opened its seventeenth session.
DC/3172
Although the Disarmament Commission had not been able to agree on elements of a draft declaration of the 2010s as the fourth disarmament decade -- the Commission’s main task this year -- a good basis for next year’s deliberations had been achieved, Commission Chairman Andrzej Towpik (Poland) told delegates today at the closing of its 2009 substantive session.
TR/2427

Meeting for the first time since 2004, the Trusteeship Council this afternoon elected by acclamation Karen Pierce ( United Kingdom) as its President and Jean-Pierre Lacroix ( France) as its Vice-President.

TR/2425

The Trusteeship Council this morning elected Yves Doutriaux (France) as its President and Stewart Eldon (United Kingdom) as Vice-President.